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 Secure enough? Re-assessment of the world’s most-used hash function

SHA-1 is the world’s most-used cryptographic hash function. But can it resist volunteer computing power?
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SHA-1 Collision Search Graz

For more than a decade security agencies have been using Secure Hash Algorithms.

Billed as being “computationally infeasible” to break, SHA-1 has recently come under academic attack.

Now, with the power of distributed volunteer computing, SHA-1 faces its toughest battle yet. 

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Feature - Disaster management

 Ground-shaking research relies on Herculean computing

Earthquake simulations help cities prepare for “the big one.”

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Technology - Virtualization

 “Grid in a box” makes virtual grids a piece of cake

Install multiple grid services on a single machine using virtualization.

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Link of the week

/reCAPTCHA: stop spam, read books, beat the bots
reCAPTCHA lets you hide your email address or protect your Web site from automated “bots,” all while helping to digitize the world’s books.

Just say “no” to spam.

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Image of the week

New results from Fight AIDS@Home

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October

28-1, IEEE Visualization 2007, Sacramento, California, U.S.

28-2, Complex Systems 2007, Boston, U.S.

28-2, WLCG Tier-2 and EU-IndiaGrid Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan

29-31, Semantics, Knowledge and Grid 2007, Xi'an, China

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